GOP Objects To Stimulus

[Kevin_Kennedy]

House GOP objects to spending in $150 billion stimulus package - CNN.com

Now they want to be fiscally responsible.

 

[Diuretic]

Isn't a stimulus package a sort of return to KeynesTo concede I'd have to know what I was conceding to.
ian economics?

 

[del]

Isn't a stimulus package a sort of return to Keynesian economics?To concede I'd have to know what I was conceding to.

"In the long run we are all dead."
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
A Tract on Monetary Reform, ch. 3 (1923).

he may have a point.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

They've been following Keynesian economics all along as far as I know. It certainly wasn't Austrian economics, which is what I follow.

Ludwig von Mises Institute - Homepage

 

[dilloduck]

House GOP objects to spending in $150 billion stimulus package - CNN.com

Now they want to be fiscally responsible.

A Senate Republican leadership aide on Friday said Senate Republicans are skeptical of a second stimulus but did not suggest there is outright opposition to one.

The last paragraph sorta makes the article iffy don't you think ?

 

[Diuretic]

"In the long run we are all dead."
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
A Tract on Monetary Reform, ch. 3 (1923).

he may have a point.

Yes, I remember that quote from Keynes - I mean, he was right of course. But apparently he was right about a few economic things as well.

 

[DavidS]

The NYSE was full of portraits of Pelosi and Reid. The NYSE is betting that they will push it through and hopefully have enough votes in the Senate to over ride Bush.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

The last paragraph sorta makes the article iffy don't you think ?

Well I didn't say they completely came to their senses now did I?

 

[del]

Yes, I remember that quote from Keynes - I mean, he was right of course. But apparently he was right about a few economic things as well.

that's my understanding.
you couldn't get much past the old bastard.

 

[Diuretic]

that's my understanding.
you couldn't get much past the old bastard.

Oh I dunno, a few members of the Bloomsbury Set got a few past him

 

[del]

Oh I dunno, a few members of the Bloomsbury Set got a few past him

keynes was bright, but he was no p.g. wodehouse.

then again, who is?